Picture of Five Hundred Arhats in Mount Lu

The 200 "Five Hundred Arhat Pictures" created by Xu Conglong, a Qing Dynasty painter, worked hard for six years and are enshrined in Qixian Temple in Lushan Mountain. This masterpiece embodies his lifelong efforts. In the next three hundred years, with the ups and downs of the country, it started a fate of ups and downs. Around these paintings, from the political circles of the Qing Dynasty to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, from the warlords' melee to modern times, a story of protection and inheritance, inheritance and development unfolded. In the novel, eminent monks, scholars, Communist Party members, guerrillas, and nearby villagers from past dynasties fought one after another to fight to the death with bureaucrats who took advantage of the country, Japanese soldiers who peeked at national treasures, gangsters who took advantage of the situation, and fanatical and violent saboteurs. They either hid treasures deep in the mountains, snatched paintings from the jaws of a tiger, cleverly resisted foreigners, or secretly crossed into Chencang. They used their lives, blood, wisdom and unity to build a flesh-and-blood Great Wall to protect culture and national treasures. The work uses the creation and circulation of national treasures as a mirror, reflecting the suffering and struggle of the Chinese nation in modern times, and composes a grand epic about art protection and civilization inheritance.